Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli is an architect and curator whose work encompasses technology, politics, design, and environmental practices. Formerly a partner at OMA, he founded the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ in Milan to deploy space as a medium rather than a goal. Latest projects include the short film dilogy Riders Not Heroes, the exhibitions Aquaria at MAAT in Lisbon and Penumbra in Venice, the design of the Fredriksen’s collection space at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, and the transformation of Rinascente’s modernist icon in Rome. Ippolito curated Open, the Russian Pavilion at the XVII Architecture Venice Biennale, and co-edited the accompanying collection Voices (Towards Other Institutions), which puts forward alternative forms of constituencies and collectiveness. In 2018 he co-curated Manifesta’s 12th edition, The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence in Palermo and has edited Palermo Atlas, the preparatory investigation on the Sicilian capital (Humboldt books, 2018). Ippolito teaches at the Royal College of Arts in London Data Matter, a research and design studio exploring the entangled relationship between data and the material world. His work has been shown internationally in various institutions, festivals, and exhibitions.